If this were not the wrong setting, Shade had no doubt Emilia would have asked for an autograph or a photo on the spot.
Shade looked at Luvia again. The Diviner with Purple Eyes smiled at him:
"Miss Feliana, this Miss Luvia Annette is not only my classmate, but also my—"
Pebbles bounced at their feet. A sudden tremor interrupted Shade, and even Miss Feliana and Fiona turned around with everyone behind Shade to look toward the center of the Sacrificial Ground.
After the Demigod Witch killed the "Light Evil Dragon" with a single blow, countless motes of light had been left dancing in the air. They were still drifting like feathers over the Sacrificial Ground and down toward the city below. But as the entire Sacrificial Ground shook, those floating motes unexpectedly began gathering toward its center.
"We defeated the enemy. This place, which buries countless secrets, isn't going to collapse, is it? That's how it's written in books."
Shade heard Emilia say this, but the Elf Girl had clearly guessed wrong, because what was happening now was even more outrageous than anything in a knightly hero tale.
Generally speaking, after a divine descent ended, the vessel that bore the god's arrival would completely perish from being unable to withstand divine power. But there were exceptions. Shade himself had not died, and the deep-sea abomination that had borne the power of the Lord of the Scarlet Spiral had merely returned to the deep sea in an utterly shattered state.
The strange Dragon that had been born from the gray Dragon Egg at the center of the Sacrificial Ground had naturally vanished completely with the defeat in the divine battle. Yet the shattered pieces of its enormous shell still lay scattered across the gray stone ground.
While Shade and Miss